President Donald Trump speaks during the National Rifle Association-ILA Leadership Forum, April 28, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Mike Stewart)

Speaking before the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday, President Donald Trump reprised his racist attack on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), calling her “Pocahontas” during a “campaign-like speech” to an appreciative crowd.

“I have a feeling in the next election you’re going to be swamped with candidates,” he said to the pro-gun group’s annual meeting in Atlanta. “But you’re not going to be wasting your time. You’ll have plenty of Democrats coming over and you’re going to say, ‘No sir, no thank you. No ma’am’—perhaps ma’am. It may be Pocahontas, remember that. And she’s not big for the NRA, that I can tell you.”

Even before he insulted Warren, Trump’s speech to the NRA—the first from a sitting president since Ronald Reagan addressed the group in 1983—served as a reminder that the president is often in campaign mode.

He “started his address with a freewheeling recollection of his November election victory,” Fox Newswrote, and vowed to “never, ever infringe on the rights of the people to keep and bear arms.”

According toHeavy.com, “the biggest applause of the afternoon came when he talked about building a wall along the southern border.”

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What Senator Warren and mint press news fail to understand is why we conservatives are angry at her. You work day and night to get special favors for special interest groups and special minorities, and then those of you on the Far Left CHEAT and try and use those benefits to your benefit.

Al Sharpton or Democratic Congressmen like Charlie Rangel not paying their taxes? No problem. Jesse Jackson embezzling funds from Operation Push to pay hush money for his mistress? Not even an issue.

And THOSE of you on the Far Left ALWAYS justify your actions claiming, “But the Republicans/Rich People do it, too!”

James Wherry

Unlike the author, I’ve actually met and talked with SEN Warren and I’ve read her books.

I like her and support her as far as consumer rights go, but what she did was WRONG.

Joel W

Somebody care to RATIONALLY explain how calling out a WHITE woman who fraudulently claimed to be a native American is racist? Isn’t cultural appropriation in fact racist?

What James Wherry (below) fails to comprehend is that civilized progressives couldn’t care less what a pederast/Zionist troll like Wherry thinks or feels about Elizabeth Warren.

Ms Warren is an advocate for the AMERICAN PEOPLE. The “conservatives” (those few capable of thought) are advocates for NOTHING OTHER THAN THEIR OWN GRATIFICATION.

PLEASE NOTE THAT, WHILE JAMES WHERRY HAS AN ABUNDANCE OF CLAIMS AND ACCUSATIONS, THAT’S ALL HE’S ARMED WITH. HE NEVER PRODUCES EVIDENCE.

James Wherry

What Senator Warren and mint press news fail to understand is why we conservatives are angry at her. You work day and night to get special favors for special interest groups and special minorities, and then those of you on the Far Left CHEAT and try and use those benefits to your benefit.

Al Sharpton or Democratic Congressmen like Charlie Rangel not paying their taxes? No problem. Jesse Jackson embezzling funds from Operation Push to pay hush money for his mistress? Not even an issue.

And THOSE of you on the Far Left ALWAYS justify your actions claiming, “But the Republicans/Rich People do it, too!”

Diana

Are you serious??? You’re talking about some “special favors” that happened how long ago??? Let’s talk about the real issue here….Donald Trump is a RACIST!!! Unbelievable! How do you, one of those who voted for him, justify that and so many more poor choices in his ” first 100 days in office”?
I can hardly wait for your reply. LOL

James Wherry

1. I did not vote for Donald Trump. I could not reconcile myself to some of his past comments about women. So, right away, you’re jumping to conclusions that undermine your credibility.

I do support 1. an end to the farce of “free trade” such as NAFTA or the Trans-Pacific Partnership which Trump ditched; 2. an end to Open Borders and illegal aliens; 3. Support for gun ownership; 4. Support for Israel and condemnation of Radical Islamic Terrorism; and 5. An end to unlawful, warrantless searches – as we saw curtailed, yesterday. I’m also a military non-interventionist and want to see us disengage from the Syrian Civil War and work with Russia while killing ISIS and al-Nusra.

The President fails me a n his lack of support for Planned Parenthood and abortion rights and a waffling support for GLBT rights.

1. I have a fairly nuanced view of President Trump. I know of no reason to think he is a “racist.” You are welcome to present evidence to the contrary, of course, but I’ll insist on evidence: your credibility is already a bit shaky.

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